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Jhpiego is currently recruiting for
experienced individuals with excellent leadership and technical skills, who is
a team players, dedicated, hardworking, innovative, highly motivated and able
to work on a high pressure environment requiring multi-tasking abilities.

Senior Program Delivery Advisor

2 Positions

Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns
Hopkins University is implementing The Challenge Initiative (TCI), a project
funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) through The Bill &
Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (GI), Department
of Population, Family & Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health.

This is a multifaceted 5 year program
focused on the rapid expansion of urban family planning programs worldwide but
with a focus on the largest cities in Asia and Africa.

TCI is an ambitious program that
leverages a matching challenge fund mechanism to provide incentives for the
rapid scale up of urban family planning programs through a framework of
accountability measures, demand driven participation of cities, and technical
support via at least four regional accelerator hubs.

Jhpiego is responsible for the East
Africa Accelerator Hub covering Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Reporting to the Deputy Project
Director, the Senior Program Delivery Advisor will be responsible for providing
technical and programmatic support to ensure sustainable adoption of family
Planning (FP) innovations, and scale-up in the selected geographies (counties,
districts or cities) in East Africa.

Responsibilities:

·Develop the criteria for identifying
potential project counties/districts in East Africa to implement TCI Program.

·Support the project team in advocacy
and marketing activities for a demand-driven approach for expansion of urban FP
innovations in both the government and private sectors.

·Perform FP landscape analyses in the
selected geographies to identify the county needs and priority, identify the
potential gaps in the family planning programs both programmatic and financial.

·Provide technical and programmatic
assistance to geographies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to develop viable RH/FP
proposals that address the specific needs and priorities of the counties
focusing on sustainable approaches which can be funded with TCI’s program
delivery funds.

·Support the counties to engage with
governments, donors, implementing partners, foundations
and other non-governmental organization on innovative ideas for family planning
resource
mobilization and leveraging on existing FP or related investments.

·Provide technical and programmatic
guidance aimed at successful and sustainable adoption of
family planning innovations across counties and districts in multiple countries
in East Africa.

·Provide mentorship and coaching to
County/District Health Management teams on family
Planning innovations and best practices, scale up and institutionalization.

·Support monitoring of FP project
activities at county/district levels including financial tracking of
resource commitments by TCI, Counties/districts and other donors.

·Support the global team in the
development and refinement of capacity building materials for
public and private sector partners on the demand driven model, on adoption of
FP innovations/
best practices, on sustainable scale up as well as on the use of communities of
practice and other
capacity building technologies.

·Assist in the preparation of donor
and project reports.

Qualifications:

·The position requires a Master’s
degree in Public Health, Demography or related field.

·A minimum of 8 years of relevant
experience in providing FP service delivery in a complex donor
funded program.

·Demonstrated experience in working
with international donors and foundations – success in grants
management is a plus.

·Experience building capacity at
individual and organizational levels: including working with
Ministries of Health and devolved County government’s staff and system,
particularly in area of
family planning – experience working in the East Africa region is a plus.

·Ability to travel as required to
support the progress of program activities.

·Excellent verbal, written
communications and presentation skills.

·Applicant should have excellent
interpersonal and teamwork skills.

·Excellent analytical, communication
and report writing skills.

·Computer literacy, particularly in
the use of MS Office.

Program Officer – VMMC

Location:Kisumu

The Voluntary Medical Male
Circumcision (VMMC) Program Officer will offer programmatic and technical
support to ensure the strategic, programmatic, and technical integrity of a
PEPFAR funded project focusing on providing extensive technical assistance to
PEPFAR Kenya and the Government of Kenya on several aspects of VMMC service
safety and quality.

Responsibilities

·Lead in management of and reporting
on Jhpiego activities, making key decisions and solving problems for
operational and program quality and integrity.